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A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the _______, Myanmar's military, which then vested power in a military junta
Tatmadaw
A name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group
exonym
A name used by a group of people to identify themselves, their language, or their place of origin.
endonym
A German philosopher of the Frankfurt school whose most famous quote is "the splinter in the eye is the best magnifying glass". His books Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.
Theodor Adorno
The above philosopher did not think highly of a mass student protests that broke out in Europe in what year?
1968
Slavoj Žižek is a Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual from what country? (Hint, it's an ex-Yugoslavian country)
Slovenia
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, and media commentator. His political ideology is in contrast to Žižeks. What country is he from?
Canada
The ____ is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea.
Volga
The _____ is the second-longest river in Europe. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest south into the Black Sea.
Danube
The _____also known as the Yaik is the third-longest river in Europe. It flows through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia.
Ural
The ____is the fourth-longest river in Europe. It is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea
Dnieper
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The _____ is the fifth longest river in Europe. It flows through Russia and empties into the Sea of Azov.
Don
Delicate blood vessels (tubes that hold blood) throughout your body. They bring nutrients and oxygen to cells in your organs and body systems.
Capillaries
The heaviest organ in the human body, weighing around 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) on average. It's also the largest organ in the body, making up about 16% of an adult's total body weight
Skin
The___ whale has the heaviest brain of any animal, weighing up to 20 pounds (7 to 9 kilograms)
Sperm
The boat in Moby-Dick is called the_____. It's a fictional whaling ship from the 19th century that appears in Herman Melville's 1851 novel
Pequod
A Russian anarchist and geographer who was born into an aristocratic family. He was known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Peter _____
Kropotkin
An Italian anarchist propagandist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy, Britain, France, and Switzerland. He also later advocated for syndicalism. Errico _____
Malatesta
The last Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II
The assassination of Archduke______ was one of the key events that led to World War I. Heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by a Bosnian Serb student.
Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip. was the assassin of the Archduke and his wife Sophie. They were shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Princip was a part of The _______ Society, terrorist organisation which was against the expansion of the Austria-Hungary empire.
Black Hand
Another factor of WWI was Germany's support for a Dutch speaking people fighting a war in South Africa against the British in 1899-1902. This was was called the _____ war
Boer
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